Starcraft 2 Local Servers?

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Anyone know if there will be any local servers for Starcraft 2 or will it only be hosted in US and Europe?

I don't see anyone else asking this question.

First: they aren't enabling LAN so we HAVE to play online.
Second: if we have to play on international servers we'll all have to upgrade to 4/8meg lines just to get decent ping and most won't be able to afford that after paying a crazy price for the game itself!

Does blizzard not care about any other countries besides the US, Europe and South Korea?

Of course South Africa only has 2 main cables connecting us to the rest of the world, so we kinda suck. :(
 
copacetic said:
If your line is not fast enough it's not going to help whether the servers are local or international, I don't think.
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That's why I said we might all be forced to upgrade to 4/8Mbit lines just to play multiplayer.. Gonna suck just playing Singleplayer over and over..
 
Cap'n Crunch said:
That's why I said we might all be forced to upgrade to 4/8Mbit lines just to play multiplayer.. Gonna suck just playing Singleplayer over and over..
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No, what you said was that if it was international servers you'd have to upgrade your line.

Anyway, nitpicking.
 
copacetic said:
No, what you said was that if it was international servers you'd have to upgrade your line.

Anyway, nitpicking.
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Yes that's what I said. What did you think I ment? What's your point?

My point is that our internet sucks and without a fast line speed, no one will be able to play on international servers. Or will a fast line not even be enough?
 
I may be wrong, but if you have a 384K line and you try to play on an international server your latency will be slightly higher than a person with a 4MB line. If it is a dedicated server that you are connecting to your refresh rate thanks to higher download speeds will be quicker. Thus your latency (not necessarily your ping) will be lower.
 
played the beta with my 384kb line and only had lag issues on a couple of games and that was to ppl in russia/poland/that end.

Otherwise hardly noticeable
 
I doubt Blizzard would bother to grace our country with their servers. But most likely someone will hack the no LAN play part of it within days, weeks maybe. Then you can host your own servers. If they can run local servers for WoW, I'm pretty sure they can get SC2 to work locally.

Apparently uncapped lines have higher ping because your traffic is deprioritized.
 
Cap'n Crunch said:
Yes that's what I said. What did you think I ment? What's your point?

My point is that our internet sucks and without a fast line speed, no one will be able to play on international servers. Or will a fast line not even be enough?
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My point was that your jabs at Telkom about line speed have nothing to do with international - If your line is too slow it's not going to make a difference whether you are connecting to Europe or up the street.

Aaaaanyway.

(from what I read on the Blizzard forums they recommend a 1Mbit line although a guy on the beta said he measured his traffic while playing and it came to 5 Kb/s, which would be perfectly fine for a 384 line)
 
Not jabbing at Telkom.. Just saying local speeds are usually faster than International speeds. Assuming a slower line would perform better locally rather than internationally..

But this is becoming a pointless thread.
 
Cap'n Crunch said:
Not jabbing at Telkom.. Just saying local speeds are usually faster than International speeds. Assuming a slower line would perform better locally rather than internationally..

But this is becoming a pointless thread.
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Your ping is higher internationally because it is further and lower locally because it is closer - Not anything to do with line speed. That's all I was trying to say. :)
 
Also been playing the Beta with a 384k line and normal afrihost account. Baring Seacom issues, I've had very few issues with my link. Playing with the US client.
 
I know that a few local ISP's have been pushing for a local Blizzard server but does not look like its happening.

I'm sure that the international games will be fine though. From what I have read the Blizzard server is only an authentication server, so if you play with local players then it will be like playing on a local server.
 
Bri said:
Also been playing the Beta with a 384k line and normal afrihost account. Baring Seacom issues, I've had very few issues with my link. Playing with the US client.
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What if it is an uncapped account on afrihost? will throttling affect it?
 
I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of your concept of Adsl.Getting a Fatter line will not improve ping.It all depends on your Latency,and yes unshaped does improve that drastically!
The amount of traffic games use is not enough to be effected by that, a 512 is fine for most games.
Think of it as a water pipe,having a high mbps means its Fatter but the flow of water is still the same.Since you only need a squirt at a time having a fatter pipe is pointless.
 
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